Faculty

Rebecca M. Rentea, MD, MS, MBA is an associate professor of surgery, pediatric surgeon, and director of the pediatric surgical multidisciplinary Comprehensive Colorectal Center at Children’s Mercy in Kansas City, Missouri. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and general surgery residency at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She performed her pediatric surgery fellowship at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, followed by a pediatric colorectal and pelvic reconstruction surgery fellowship at Nationwide Children’s Hospital at the Ohio State University- Columbus, Ohio. She has a clinical and translational research background, a master’s in health outcomes research from Northwestern University in Chicago and an MBA from the University of Wisconsin. Her focus is on pediatric colorectal and pelvic reconstruction pediatric surgery, clinical outcomes research, surgical education with minimally invasive surgical approaches.